Yangsook Kim, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Sociology
Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts & Letters
Sociology
Boca Raton Campus | CU 245
Research:
International Migration, Citizenship, Care Work, Comparative Ethnography, Qualitative Methods
Teaching:
Global Migration,
Migrant Labor, Care and Society, Sociology of gender, Transnational Communities, Race and ethnicity
Background
Dr. Yang-Sook Kim joined the faculty of the sociology department at FAU in 2022. She holds a Master’s in sociology from Korea University, South Korea, and a Ph.D. in Sociology from University of Toronto, Canada (2020). Dr. Kim's current book project examines how unequally positioned groups of marginalized women workers navigate intensifying precarity with a comparative case study of care sectors in South Korea and the United States. In another ongoing project “Heroes in Precarity,” she critically analyzes how eldercare workers have been responding to the crisis and the political opportunities created by the COIVD-19 global pandemic in California and Seoul.
Recent Publications
Yang-Sook Kim, 2022, National Care Experts and Joseonjok Aunties: Eldercare Workers’ Resistance in South Korea.Korean Journal of International Migration, 9(1), 5-23 (Written in Korean).